Good Bye Lenin!

...det är framför allt omsorgen om detaljerna - det konkreta och vardagliga i öst-väst-problematiken - som gör filmen så bra.

An ingenious little idea that is funny, moving and - gasp! - even makes you think.

Was East Germany really still alive in 1990? It seems almost incredible watching this clever, poignant little movie from director Wolfgang Becker, that delivers the shock of the new and the shock of the old.

The underlying poignancy in this comedy is perhaps psychological more than political: How many of us lie to our parents, pretending a world still exists that they believe in but we have long since moved away from?